When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe to the master's wine-cask.

Danish proverbs
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Cherry In Your Tree

Copyright 1993 emi virgin song inc. o.b.o.
Emi virgin limited
Composer: andy partridge
Andy partridge - vocals, guitar, percussion, claps
Colin moulding - bass, harmony vocals, claps
Dave gregory - good natured ghost effects
With
Brian doherty - drums
Garo yellin - cello
David yazbek - keyboards, backing vocals, claps
Sean altman - backing vocals
Produced by david yazbek
Chorus:
Cherry cherry in your tree
Jump down on the ground and make a pie with me
Cherry cherry in your tree
Jump down on the ground and make a pie with me
I got toys like the other boys
Come down from your tree now
I can set you free now

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song performed by Xtc
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I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

quote by Mark Mothersbaugh
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I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

quote by Bobby Flay
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Five Visions Of Captain Cook

I
COOK was a captain of the Admiralty
When sea-captains had the evil eye,
Or should have, what with beating krakens off
And casting nativities of ships;
Cook was a captain of the powder-days
When captains, you might have said, if you had been
Fixed by their glittering stare, half-down the side,
Or gaping at them up companionways,
Were more like warlocks than a humble man—
And men were humble then who gazed at them,
Poor horn-eyed sailors, bullied by devils' fists
Of wind or water, or the want of both,
Childlike and trusting, filled with eager trust—
Cook was a captain of the sailing days
When sea-captains were kings like this,
Not cold executives of company-rules
Cracking their boilers for a dividend
Or bidding their engineers go wink
At bells and telegraphs, so plates would hold

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poem by Kenneth Slessor
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The same heat that melts wax, bakes clay.

French proverbs
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I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

quote by Clarence Clemons
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Too many cooks, cooking at the same time makes the day take long to break.

African proverbs
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If you look up "tea" in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points.

George Orwell in A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)
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Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

quote by Emeril Lagasse
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If a man looks upon your wife pluck out his eye and cook it in a goodly stew. If he eats the stew his manhood will wither and fall off in the next moon.

Gypsy proverbs
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

quote by Poppy Z. Brite
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You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

quote by Thomas Keller
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Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus in De Carne Christi
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Snake Dinner

A snake dinner anyone?
Now, don’t go shakin’ your head
You just might really like it
Not necessarily something to dread

I’ve heard snake is delicious
And there are lots that you can do
To spark and spruce it right up
Whatever works for you

Pour on catsup perhaps?
Or a little bit of red wine?
Mustard or hot sauce?
Whatever you like is fine

Maybe braised or broiled
Or sautéed right in a pan
Add veggies perhaps for stew
Whatever you have on hand

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poem by Marilyn Lott
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Campfire Meal

There is nothing like a meal
From a flaming hot campfire
It cooks the kind of food
For which you’ll never tire

A slow cooked smoky brisket
The best you ever got
Along with homemade biscuits
Cooked right in a iron pot

The beans are so hot and spicy
Your taste buds will yell hooray
The food is so delicious
I don’t know just what to say

The sweet corn and potatoes
Are cooked on the campfire too
Grab a plate and get in line
That’s just what you want to do

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poem by Marilyn Lott
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She Likes To Cook

She likes to cook.
Often, it seems.
Often, and perhaps too much.
Like all good cooks,
she must, sometimes,
be taken advantage of;
her culinary delights devoured,
carelessly,
to sate the hunger of some
as well sustained by Maccas.
But chefs so splendid,
so gifted and so generous as she is,
enjoy that giving of the pleasure,
in the way that she does.
Giving so patiently and carefully
and willingly and happily.
And exuberantly!
And, perhaps, too much.
Too much for what's returned.
She has fed me, too, her cakes,

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poem by Red O'Mara
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

quote by Tertullian
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

quote by Ted Allen
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A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

quote by Charlie Trotter
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